The Clitheroe v e r t i s e r a n


Thursday, August 22nd, 2002 No. 6,059


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AT A GLANCE


Excellent A-level results take CRGS into the top five per cent of the country ’s schools.


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Clitheroe’s proms night went with a bang, as more than 1,000 people packed the Castle grounds.


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A local motor.club celebrates its 40th birthday.


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A popular village vicar is to retire after 18 years’ service.


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The Valley ’s volun-, teer flying doctor (left) is among those nominated for our Heart of the Valley Awards.


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Problems are expected in Whal- ley when one-way traffic is intro­ duced in Accrington Road.


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Ribble Valley’s Mayor held a jubilee ball and boosted the funds of local charities to the time of £2,000 plus.


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Famous cow Penny gives birth - at 22


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THE cow which became" the Ribble Valley's symbol of survival during the fight against foot and mouth disease


has given birth. This may not appear an unusual event


for a cow, but Penny, who delivered the calf unaided on Monday, celebrated her 22nd birthday on New Year's Day. The birth, at Smithies Bridge .Farm, Sawley, thus became another special occasion to be cele­ brated by farmers Alan and Joan Parker and their son, Richard. Mrs Parker said: "It's amazing. I didn't


think she was in calf, but Alan thought that she was, all along. We tried to get her


scanned, but couldn't and blood samples came back negative." However, after doing his rounds of the ani­


. with her. Mrs Parker said: "It was laid in the thistles


Friesian heifer calf, the first that Penny has bomel Mrs Parker said: "She's had other calves, • continued on page 19


about three weeks later than what I had her down as." The new addition to the Parkers' stock is a


Mr Parker said: "I'm very pleased. It's


mals on Sunday night, Mr Parker asked Mrs Parker and Richard to check on Penny (pic­ tured with her calf) first thing in the morning before they went out into the fields. They duly went to look at Penny and the calf was


when we got there, like a little rabbit. It was soon running around.T think it's .wonderful." •


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Police bid to ‘switch off’ music row


D ISCO N T EN T among neighbours at youths congregating in a Clitheroe car park playing loud music from their cars erupted on Sunday night. Police were involved


as tempers boiled over at Riverlea Gardens close to the Islamic Learning Centre. Angry neighbours


off peacefully


Questions now asked about costly police presence by Tim Procter


DID what looked like a three-mile exhibition of police hardware save a major disturbance on the Ribble Valley's key A59 main road over the week­ end? -


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BNP is coming to Sawley". announcement; police pledg- ed that everyone could,have; th e ir .say, h u t th a t public-, safety would be the; major. priority.


extremely large and obviously costly police presence was just too much. One fierce critic is local MP Mr Nigel Evans. As it was, plenty of views


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were expressed all round at and about the Red, White and Blue Rally, but there was no trouble of any kind. However, Ribble Valley Borough Coun­ cil leader Coun. Chris Holtom is adamant th a t there had been "signs" and "indications" that the BNP’s fiercest oppo­ nents, the Anti-Nazi League, were going to approach the BNP camp site off the A59 at Sawley in very large numbers. Last week, as reported in


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■ This week Coun. Holtom told us: "The weekend has been a great success. That hasn't just happened by acci­ dent. I would like, to express my thanks on behalf of the council to all the people who tion of the "Last Night of the helped in it, principally the Proms” on Saturday, police and the officials of vari- The BNP's chairman, Mr ous departments of the coun- Nick Griffin, rang the Adver-


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lance cameras was utilised for - numbers, leafleted par t of the first time, positioned in • Clitheroe. the grounds of the abattoir However, 19 members, one across the road from the site. . less than a "gathering" were The other was placed in the allowed to sit on the verge Castle grounds for the dura- near the site, supervised by


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clearly have cost thousands of pounds. As it turned out, hap­ pily, it wasn't needed, but it could so easily have gone the other way. Coun. Holtom, like many


"The police operation must


the Advertiser and Times, Coun. Holtom regretted that the rally was being held local­ ly, but warned that the pud­ ding of concern must not be over-egged. But he supported the scale of the police opera­ tion.


; :;V); ,- \ ; j\TH E yhibuFlag^mpoints^he B N P raUy site rind,1 above, the protest by the Anti-Nazi League . /


claim that, despite sever­ al complaints each week for the last two or three months, police had not turned out to deal with the matter. And one resi­ dent was bitter about the response from one particular officer - they believe from Blackburn - who, it was claimed, was "obnoxious" when they telephoned police. Police, who this week mounted daily patrols in


will come? Do we have to wait until someone is stabbed? I t makes us wonder why we are pay­ ing our council taxes." Another Riverlea resi­


dent, Mr Peter Cunning­ ham, said he went out on Sunday night to ask the youths to turn down their music because his 13-year-old stepdaugh­ ter was trying to sleep. They turned it down


the area, are investigat- . belt, and struck him ing an incident in the car across the hand. park late on Sunday night when a local resi­ dent went out to con­ front the youths and blows were exchanged. Mr Graham Mitchell,


of Riverlea Gardens, said he and his neigh­ bours had made many calls of complaint about the youths who gather in the car park, open their cars' tailgates and play music at full blast. I have written letters


for 10 minutes, then turned it up again. The scene turned nasty when he returned to the car park and one of the youths came at him with what he thought was a


to his house and got a rubber lump hammer and struck the youth across the shoulder." He claimed the youths


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threatened to rape his wife and murder his daughter. "There were heated


words and one of them shouted 'Go in and pray'," said Mr Cunning­ ham.


to Ribble Valley Bor-. ' dens resident, who would ough. Council; but still riot give^her. name for •nothing is done," he said. > .fear of-reprisals, said: .Mr Mitchell said the "Sometimes they are ,


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youths: blade the? wheels v /there until 2 a.m." i -. ■ ■ sp in o n th e ir cars and - ..This week a police made the music play as spokesman at Clitheroe loudly as possible.; ■ ? - said they were aware of


tiser and Times this week to say: "We were very, very pleased. We had just over 1,000 people through the gates over the two days." The festi­ val had lots of family-style attractions and some speech­


others, was unsure about what to expect from the BNP. But, he says, he looked at the camp site through binoculars on Saturday and Sunday. "AH I could see was family


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But there was at least some movement out-of the site by


police and were there much of Saturday. The Valley's MP, in his constituency throughout the weekend, was critical of the decision to allow tha t protest. He was also highly critical of the cost of policing, suggesting that the bill should have been presented to the farmer who hired out the site. The presence of the BNP.


had various side effects. Clitheroe was, in the opinion of some people, quieter than


the BNP - unless the propa- usual on Saturday. Many of ganda cards about immigra- . the borough's Asian-heritage tion and capital punishment taxi drivers decided not to for paedophiles > pushed work.


groups moving about inside the site," he says. One of the borough coun­ cil's new mobile video surveil-


through this newspaper's door There was certainly less was some kind of hoax. The traffic than usual on the A59 Anti-Nazi league, prevented and apart from any public from going near the site in any order issue, police made sure


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that drivers slowed down' - the usual speeds would clearly have been highly dangerous with so many vehicles and people milling about quite a long stretch. "Your speed is" liquid crys­


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are being deliberately and had placed the area provocative. They are on their direct patrol stirring lis up on pur- system, which means pose. What do you have officers would patrol the to do before the police area on a daily basis.


' drive or two and many signs left no one in any doubt of the Lancashire Constabulary's determination that the peace be kept. The force was praised not


tal display units told motorists how fast they were going and there were plenty of officers about to keep an eye on everyone. Police horses, dog vans, motor cyclists, large vans,' traffic cars, a four-wheel


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only by Coun. Holtom but also by the organisers of the nearby vintage rally. Local police chief Insp. Bob


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Gas blast house misery for an GAP by Vivien Meath


THE semi-detached house in Clitheroe's Standen Road which was extensively damaged in the Bank Holiday gas blast has been


reduced to a shell and rebuilt. That, however, is of no comfort to the 74-year-old pensioner living in the


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Zdzislaw Pietrzak has endured con­ stant noise, dirt and disruption while workmen almost dismantled the house next door and rebuilt it. From early in the morning, the sound of lump ham­ mers taking walls down has been almost An everyday occurrence. Mr Pietrzak was in his kitchen


He was asked to move out tem­


porarily while checks were carried out on the fabric of both properties. Once his adjoining semi was declared "safe," 1 he moved back in. The months since then have been a nightmare, according to his son, Stephen. The first sign of things to come was


when the April explosion ricocheted through the semi-detached home occu­ pied by his neighbours. ■ •


: noise of lump hammers demolishing walls. The thudding noise has rever­ berated throughout his own home,


the siting of two large cabins in-the front garden of the blast-damaged property. Scaffolding followed around the house and planks were placed in the pensioner's garden. Then the builders arrived, dismantling the inte­ rior and exterior structure of the semi­ detached house next door, as the grounds of the property were filled with rubble and skips. In the early hours of the morning, Mr Pietrzak has been awoken by the.


hour after hour, day after day. In a desperate bid to shut it out, he has taken to walking into town before breakfast. The front of the property damaged


by the blast was rebuilt. Builders then turned their attention to the sides and the hack. Then a wall was erected,. said by Mr Pietrzak jnr to be just six inches away from his father's home, blocking light. Throughout the past four months,


the Pietrzak family has been disap­ pointed that no one has contacted their elderly relative to apologise for the disruption, or even warned him it was likely to take place. In fact, says his son, the only offer,


of help he had was, just recently, when the dust was so bad th a t builders offered to have the front windows of his home cleaned. "Dad lives on his own and struggles


to maintain his home. The banging has been unbelievable, particularly in the early hours and, of course, he is concerned about the fabric of his own home," says Mr Pietrzak jnr. To make matters worse, the pen­


sioner has, says his son, been told by the builders that the adjoining proper­ ty is being rebuilt using breeze blocks and not red brick, as the house was before. "They told my father that, if it had been built in breeze blocks origi­ nally, there would have been nothing left of it. How does that make my father, feel?"


ough Council said this week that the authority's building control officer was visiting the property to make inspec­ tions, but the rebuilding work was being undertaken privately. I t is expected work will he completed with­


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